AIDS Crisis 1987

With an average of two people a day dying of AIDS in Britain, the government is blitzing the nation with warning posters as part of its 20 million pound (30-million-dollar) media campaign, March 5, 1987. This poster confronts passengers at the Kings Cross subway station in central London. The British Government approved an experimental drug - AZT - which is manufactured by the Welcome Foundation Drug Company, for the treatment of AIDS. (AP Photo/Gillian Allen)